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17-letter words containing f, a, r, s

  • statue of liberty — a large copper statue, on Liberty Island, in New York harbor, depicting a woman holding a burning torch: designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886.
  • statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • stock certificate — a certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock in a corporation.
  • store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
  • straight arm lift — a wrestling attack, in which a wrestler twists the opponent's arm against the joint and lifts him or her by it, often using the shoulder as a fulcrum
  • strait of otranto — a stretch of water between SE Italy and Albania, connecting the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea; of strategic importance during World War I
  • stratford-on-avon — a town in SW Warwickshire, in central England, on the Avon River: birthplace and burial place of Shakespeare.
  • stratified sample — a sample that is not drawn at random from the whole population, but separately from a number of disjoint strata of the population in order to ensure a more representative sample
  • strike-slip fault — a geological fault on which the movement is along the strike of the fault
  • sufficient reason — the principle that nothing happens by pure chance, but that an explanation must always be available
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • supreme sacrifice — the sacrifice of one's own life: Many made the supreme sacrifice during the war.
  • surface condenser — a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
  • surface structure — a structural representation of the final syntactic form of a sentence, as it exists after the transformational component has modified a deep structure. Compare deep structure.
  • surface treatment — A surface treatment is a process applied to the surface of a material to make it better in some way, for example by making it more resistant to corrosion or wear.
  • sword of damocles — Damocles (def 2).
  • take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • temple of artemis — the temple at Ephesus dedicated to Artemis.
  • the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thiosulfuric acid — an acid, H 2 S 2 O 3 , that may be regarded as sulfuric acid with one oxygen atom replaced by sulfur.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • to feel your oats — to feel exuberant or high-spirited
  • to raise the roof — If a group of people inside a building raise the roof, they make a very loud noise, for example by singing or shouting.
  • to show your face — If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • transfer function — The transfer function of a circuit is the ratio of the response to the input.
  • transferable vote — a vote that is transferred to a second candidate indicated by the voter if the first is eliminated from the ballot
  • transformationist — transformist.
  • transignification — (in the Eucharist) a change in the significance of the bread and wine to symbolize the body and blood of Christ.
  • unclassified road — a road that has not been given a grade because it is of a basic standard
  • uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uniformitarianism — supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
  • unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
  • unprofessionalism — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • walleye surfperch — a common black and silvery surfperch (Hyperprosopon argenteum) found off the coast of California
  • wars of the roses — the civil struggle between the royal house of Lancaster, whose emblem was a red rose, and the royal house of York, whose emblem was a white rose, beginning in 1455 and ending with the accession of Henry VII in 1485 and the union of the two houses.
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
  • year of confusion — (in ancient Rome) the year of 445 days preceding the introduction, in 46 b.c., of the Julian calendar: lengthened to compensate for the cumulative errors of the Roman calendar.
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